The Queen of JhansiSeagull Books, 2010 - 325 من الصفحات Lakshmibai, the Queen of Jhansi, a legendary Indian heroine, led her troops against the British in the uprising of 1857, which is now widely described as the first Indian War of Independence. The image of the young warrior queen who died on the battlefield but not in the minds of her people captured the imagination of novelist Mahasweta Devi, who undertook extensive research that encompassed family reminiscence, oral literature, local histories, and more traditional sources. From these she wove a very personal history of a heroine--an unusual woman, widowed at an early age, who grew from a free-spirited child into an independent young leader. Devi's resulting work traces the history of the growing resistance to the British, while building a detailed picture of Lakshmibai as a complex, spirited, full-blooded woman who wears her long tresses unbound at the same time as she prefers a male attire on horseback; who is a cool-headed and far-sighted leader of men, full of warm concern for her soldiers; as well as a mother who worries about her infant son's well-being. Simultaneously a history, a biography, and an imaginative work of fiction, this book is a valuable contribution to the reclamation of history and historiography by feminist writers. |
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... rebels . Wherever the rebels are found , they will either be hanged or slaughtered . Signed : W. C. Erskine ... Rebel Queen ' and never mentioned his letter even once . As soon as the Queen took charge of Jhansi , her actions ...
... rebel- lion at Jabalpur . In July , the English officers there had learned of the possibility of an uprising . They were infor- med through spies that Shankar Shah , the Gond King , and his son Raghunath Shah , together with other ...
... rebels lying in wait inside the ravines . At once a fierce combat followed — from the banks of the Yamuna to Tehri ... rebel was to be seen as far as the eyes could see . As I watched the method of this determined attack on my centre ...